CVE-2014-0077
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5EPSS 0.8%EU EUVD
drivers/vhost/net.c in the Linux kernel before 3.13.10, when mergeable buffers are disabled, does not properly validate packet lengths, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and host OS crash) or possibly gain privileges on the host OS via crafted packets, related to the handle_rx and get_rx_bufs functions.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.5 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:A/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-787
- EPSS score
- 0.8% (57th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2014-0169)
- Published
- April 14, 2014
- NVD last modified
- June 17, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2014-0169 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- linux / linux kernel
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d8316f3991d207fe32881a9ac20241be8fa2bad0
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59386(Broken Link)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59599(Broken Link)
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.13.10(Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66678(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1064440(Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory)
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d8316f3991d207fe32881a9ac20241be8fa2bad0(Patch, Third Party Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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